2008 Symposium
The Future Environmental Agenda:
Environmental Law and Policy Challenges Facing the Next President
Agenda for 2008 Symposium
Friday, October 24
Room 3041, Duke Law School
8:00 a.m. — 8:30 a.m.
Registration begins, coffee and snacks available
Registration is free and can be completed at Duke Law School on Friday, Oct. 24th from 8:00 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. — 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
- William Chameides, PhD, MS
Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment
8:45 a.m. — 10:00 a.m.
Panel I: International Environmental Agreements
- Moderator: Tim Profeta, JD, MEM
Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Senior Associate Dean - Amy Fraenkel, JD
Director and Regional Representative, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for North America - David Hunter, JD
Assistant Professor and Director of the Program on International and Comparative Environmental Law, Washington College of Law at American University - Carl Bruch, JD, MA
Senior Attorney and Co-Director of International Programs, Environmental Law Institute
10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m
Panel I Discussion/Q&A
10:30 a.m. — 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
Panel II: Natural Resources
- Moderator: Ryke Longest, JD
Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School - J.B. Ruhl, JD, LLM, PhD
Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property, Florida State Law School - Mark Squillace, JD
Professor of Law and Director of the Natural Resources Law Center at Colorado Law School - Victor Flatt, JD
A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Law, Director, Center for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources at University of Houston Law School, Visiting Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Panel II Discussion/Q&A
12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m.
Break for Lunch
1:30 p.m. — 3:15 p.m.
Panel III: Pollution
- Moderator: Christopher Schroeder, JD, MDiv
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Director of the Program in Public Law at Duke Law School - Don Elliott, JD
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center & Yale Law School - Vickie Patton, JD
Deputy General Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund - Robert Percival, JD, MA
Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program, Maryland Law School - Noah Sachs, JD, MPA
Assistant Professor of Law & Faculty, Director, Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Center for Environmental Studies, University of Richmond Law School
3:15 p.m. — 3:45 p.m.
Panel III Discussion/Q&A
3:45 p.m. — 4:15 p.m.
Closing Session
- Jonathan Wiener, JD
William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy
***CLE credit will be offered for the symposium. However, our CLE accreditation will not have been completed by the Symposium. Attendees can receive CLE credit by giving their bar numbers and names at the registration tent on Friday morning, and DELPF members will send this information in once CLE accreditation has been completed.
For more information, email brianna.menke@duke.edu.
Driving Directions
Parking Directions: Visitor parking is located on Science Drive within a short walk of the Law School in the pay station visitor lot across from The Fuqua School of Business.